verso
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8.3
- noun
- /ˈvɜrsoʊ/
- Specialized
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verso
- In this book, the verso page features a stunning illustration in full color.
- folio 1 verso
- verso page
- verso and recto
Examples
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The double-spread page right after the tragic event shows Odin's gloomy figure on the verso side.
Academic text (2018) -
Change and development occur between the verso and recto sides of one double-spread page as well.
Academic text (2018) -
The characters on the verso side look like modern punk rockers, with their shaved heads and Mohawks.
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On opening 1, both the verso and the recto show Ella viewing completed pages of her notebook.
Academic text (2014) -
The hands alternate systematically between the recto and verso sides and even change in the middle of a sentence if the end of the page is reached.
Academic text (2018) -
As I turned the pages, I noticed that the verso side often contained author's notes.
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The collection includes artworks printed on the verso pages to provide additional context.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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9.9
The right-hand page of an open book or the front of a single sheet, usually an odd page
Surface Forms
Etymology
Verso comes from the Latin versus meaning 'turned', from vertere 'to turn', like the English word reverse. Think of the page you 'turn' to, the left-hand or 'back' side of a sheet, so verso is the left page of an open book.